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Saturday, August 24, 1963
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The Headlines
ANTI-U.S. FEELING RISES IN VIETNAM AS UNREST GROWS; Nhu's Power in Regime Gains --Harder Line Toward Washington Is Feared 30 DEATHS REPORTED Troops Arrest Professors and May Seize Students to Avert a Rebellion Killing at Hue Indicated Regime Accuses Reds Anti-American Feeling Grows in Vietnam After Regime Acts Against Buddhists SAIGON STUDENTS REPORTED UNEASY Humiliation of U.S. Citizens Continues as Nhu Gains Power in Government Mrs. Nhu Exuberant Humiliations Continue Lodge Sees Two Buddhists
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Cleopatra †
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Touch-Tone Phone, Computer Mouse (Prototype) & Instant Replay.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
22,931 days ago
(62 years, 301 days)